Originally Posted by cadboll I have been playing around with video editing for about a year or so. Mainly been using Pinnacle Studio 9 but recently got Adobe Premier Pro 1.5 and looking to get into it seriously.
My current PC spec is as follows:
Motherboard - ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB 7200RPM 8MB cache.
AMD Athlon XP 3200 processor
However, I would like to upgrade my PC but am thinking its probably best to have a PC dedicated to video. As a result I am looking around to get some advice as to the best components to buy.
To date I have been looking at motherboards and processors. At present I am considering the Athlon 64x2 Dual Core 3800+ processor but unsure as to the best motherboard. Can anyone advise?
Also are there other things that I need to be aware of? I'm at the learning stage so my knowledge is limited. Many thanks. |
Motherboard - go for one in the Asus A8N range, the A8N-E, A8N-SLI Premium or A8N-SLI Deluxe. If you're upgrading it, odds are you'll need to upgrade your power supply unit too, unless you have a very powerful one already.
For a dual core, I recommend a reasonably decent 500W PSU, Coolermaster, Tagan, something like that.
RAM? If you're not overclocking, you may as well get something like the lower end Crucial or Corsair ValueSelect RAM.
Video card, you'll need a PCI-Express card. If you're just doing editing, it doesn't really matter on the speed of your card, may as well just get a low-end GeForce or Radeon, but be careful to get a card with memory built in, as it seems to be a trend at the moment for video card manufacturers to create budget cards that grab some of the system RAM for the card rather than having its own (Hypermemory is one name I've seen that's guilty of that)
Hard Drive - get as much as you can afford, and make it Serial ATA. I'm not really a fan of Maxtor Drives, but that's down to personal preference.
Or you could always buy an Apple Mac
